Summary
Ellyn Montgomery is an oceanographer, data manager, and software developer with over three decades of hands-on experience building and operating ocean measurement systems and turning their outputs into accessible, well-documented data products. Based at USGS after a long tenure at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, she has led instrument development projects, managed dozens of research cruises, and co-authored more than 40 scientific publications and data releases. Technically fluent across Python, Matlab, C, Fortran, Perl and embedded firmware, she combines fieldwork rigor with Unix systems and data-archive expertise to quality-control and serve 30 years of coastal marine observations via THREDDS/OPeNDAP. A practical problem-solver, she has automated satellite telemetry pipelines, created KML-based site visualizations for Google Earth, and continues to modernize workflows with Jupyter notebooks.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
BA, Biology geology, BA, Biology geology at Colby College